Re: SPAM sinks to a new low

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From Mike Godwin <mnemonic@WELL.COM>
Date Sat, 29 May 1999 14:39:13 -0400
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John Young writes

>Mike Godwin winningly wrote:
>
>>I think those who engage in such behavior are, most likely, mentally ill.
>
>What's pleasurable about these closing nosepunches of an otherwise
>overly calm post, is they show a delightful aesthetico-ethico-madness in
>the author/speaker.

Maybe they do. But I was not engaging in a nosepunch, so far as I know. I
was expressing what I believe to be the case.

As it happens, I had drafted a version of this posting without the
concluding line, but unwittingly sent the wrong version.

By the way, "dead hors-de-combat" is pretty good.


--Mike


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